Garlic Bread in Livingston

4 restaurants in Livingston list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Franco’s Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.95, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Turano's Pizza Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Livingston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 102 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Caldwell, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.19.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Livingston? Franco’s Pizza, at $4.00 on 489 S Livingston Ave. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $6.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Livingston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Caldwell, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.19. That is $3.19 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.